Sunday, August 12, 2012

iTunes Podcasts not displaying all available episodes

Problem: You've added a podcast to iTunes and want to view all the episodes, not just the most recent one. You then tried the right click "Show all available episodes" menu option ... and... nothing happened! Arrgh!

Solution: You're most likely viewing the Podcasts as a Grid (iTunes > View > as Grid) ... in this mode it won't show the other episodes even after you click "Show all available episodes"... your choices are:
1. Simply use a different view e.g. Album List
2. Double click the podcast and you'll see a list of all the episodes - it's not intuitive because if you mouse over the episode you get a "Play selected" help tip.

Just another reason why I only use iTunes when I have to (they design pretty phones but iTunes is a complete fail in terms of usability!)